Anyone play Bannerlord?

I usually just play the first game with the napoleonic dlc but I've been thinking of trying bannerlord. Is it worth it?
 
I have been waiting four long years for a update to this mod.
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Idk, I have it, I kinda wanna play it.. but I keep fall back playing the fucking Prophesy of Pendor mod for Warlords. How similar is Bannerlords to the OG?
 
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Idk, I have it, I kinda wanna play it.. but I keep fall back playing the fucking Prophesy of Pendor mod for Warlords. How similar is Bannerlords to the OG?
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If you are an MP guy, it is worse than the OGs last tine I played. High ping back hand spam people with shields and kick people without shields was the meta. Made mp so meta and broken. If you had a high ping, meaning greater than 40 you had to play archer or cavalry. Even cavalry was iffy because couch lancing was ever worth it.

For single player / multiplayer they had a cool mod called banner lord online which had up to 1000 people on the campaign map simultaneously. I remember persistent world was a thing but this was a much grander scale and you could command your own armies. I stopped playing that though because they released it too soon and it was devoid of content.

For single player itself, there were some cool overhaul mods but iirc the map editor was a bitch.
 
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When I start playing it, I end up continuing a session for weeks. When I get bored, I somehow get into a phase where I think it's boring and so I'll never play it again. Then I start playing it again a few months later and spend more weeks. It's like digital heroin, you hate it when you're not doing it and while you're doing it you can't think of anything else.

I mostly stick with the Eagle Rising mod and whatever else goes with it.
 
I'm interested in it.
I've never plaeyd Mount and Blade even though I'd probably love it. I got interested again when I learned that Battle Cry of Freedom was just Mount and Blade: Napoleonic Wars. The premise of leading troops in formation warfare in the first person perspective.

I'm interested in the With Fire and Sword, Crusades, Sengoku, Viking Britain and Napoleonic (for lack of a decent Civil War or American Revolution one, to my knowledge) total conversions. I'd be interested in the Thirty Years War HRE if someone made it.
 
It's literal abandonware. Like literally, they ditched it. I followed it since the first alpha and for every patch that actually added something, the next 8-10 were nothing but "fixed fixed fixed adjusted fixed adjusted". There was a website called bannerlordperks or something which tracked which perks actually worked. 99% of them were broke cause of a wrong comma or what have you, and they fixed ~15% each 'major patch'.

Absolute shitshow. M&B pioneered Warband then milked it to death with Bannerlord. When they initially made it possible to buy Bannerlord, they said "Heh.. you can buy it now or wait a year when itll be worthwhile.. don't say we didn't warn you.." 2 years later it was still dogshit. It pains me but literally do not engage, ever. Even as a "barebone sandbox engine" it sucks.
 
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⋖ cørdion ⋗ said:
It's literal abandonware. Like literally, they ditched it. I followed it since the first alpha and for every patch that actually added something, the next 8-10 were nothing but "fixed fixed fixed adjusted fixed adjusted". There was a website called bannerlordperks or something which tracked which perks actually worked. 99% of them were broke cause of a wrong comma or what have you, and they fixed ~15% each 'major patch'.

Absolute shitshow. M&B pioneered Warband then milked it to death with Bannerlord. When they initially made it possible to buy Bannerlord, they said "Heh.. you can buy it now or wait a year when itll be worthwhile.. don't say we didn't warn you.." 2 years later it was still dogshit. It pains me but literally do not engage, ever. Even as a "barebone sandbox engine" it sucks.
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So even with as old and shitty as it looks, just play Warband.
 
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It's amazing how genuinely bland Bannerlord is, the absolute incompetence behind TaleWorlds will go down in history...or at least it should. This game should be dead, yet it somehow managed to keep a steady 20k+ since early access, the same early access that was virtually unplayable. It's baffling, especially considering how non-existent the current modding scene is for a number of reasons and how even to this day Warband gets some good mods every now and again (mostly from the Chinese). Someone even remastered 2 bigger mods from back in the day. Even then, the older mods like Perisno, Third Age, Warsword conquest, diplomacy, and my personal favorite Aut Caesar aut nihil on the workshop, not to mention others on Moddb such as Struggle for the Iliac Bay, Berserk: Rebirth (wildcard I know), 457 AD, Anno Domini 1257, and even more that are still being made/updated to this day.
And while Bannerlord still has mods being pumped out (mostly misc mods) the better mods have either been abandoned, have super slow development, are incredibly buggy, are just poor quality, or the mod authors are waiting for TaleWorlds to stop with the constant micro updates that somehow break the game in pieces. Seriously you go on the Steam Discussions and even the God damn plebbit (the general reddit, the Bannerlord reddit is filled with fanboys who screech at anyone who disagrees with them, standard reddit behavior) you won't find many who'll defend the game, at least full-heartedly. More than once I've seen some of the highest rated posts of that month shitting on Bannerlord, for example. I really do wish the modders best of luck with Bannerlord but until then it's just...not worth it in the slightest, anything Bannerlord has Warband has better, except for maybe graphics and some other stuff but why would I give a fuck about graphics and other minor things like a normie?
 
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Even then, the older mods like Perisno, Third Age, Warsword conquest, diplomacy, and my personal favorite Aut Caesar aut nihil on the workshop, not to mention others on Moddb such as Struggle for the Iliac Bay, Berserk: Rebirth (wildcard I know), 457 AD, Anno Domini 1257, and even more that are still being made/updated to this day.
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The annoying thing about searching for Warband mods is that it's very rare for modders to do the tedious work of balancing the mod and making the new mechanics fit with the basic gameplay loop after the initial stage of throwing in all the cool things they wanted to see. For example, even in Warsword, rightly ranked among the best Warband mods, they added a huge number of new skills, raised the caps to 15, added a bunch of level 60 monsters and hero units.. and forgot that the game soft-caps both companions and the player around level 35-40. So companions are mostly reduced to skill monkeys, since very few of them can ever be better fighters than the level 45 top-tier regular troops, let alone things like Runelords and Treemen.

The few mods I've played that avoid this trap the best are the aptly named Viking Conquest Balance Mod, Gekokujo, Third Age, and possibly PoP, though it still bugs me that the xenophobic wood elves are running around with a hodgepodge of random human troops because nobody bothered restricting the rescued prisoner mechanic to fit a setting where literal demons, snake monsters and Conan LARPers are running around.
 
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